Providing+Feedback

Read & Reflect
Feedback keeps learners and instruction on target. Objectives are the destination; feedback keeps up moving toward that destination. Feedback promotes correction and improvement and lets learners know if they are off track and how to correct. Feedback can also motivate, direct and help sustain effort.
 * 1) What is the purpose of providing feedback in the classroom? **

I use rubrics with students and use quick, informal “check for understanding” strategies to help them (and me) see their progress. Rehearsals, walk through’s, drafts, are all ways to observe performance, give feedback and help learners correct performance prior to the summative assessments. Breaking tasks down into smaller pieces and giving feedback on the steps is also a strategy I use frequently.
 * 2) What kind of feedback do I provide my students? **

Feedback needs to be targeted with the desired performance (objective). It needs to be specific to the skill/behavior and it needs to be timely. Poor – nice job on that paper Better – your introductory paragraph grabbed your reader’s attention and drew him into your paper effectively. Best – use a detailed rubric that includes features of a quality paper aligned to standards that is shared with students and visited throughout the lesson**.**
 * 3) What makes feedback useful? **

I’d like to know more about how to make self-assessments effective. Students give them cursory attention and tend to view feedback from the teacher as the only feedback that matters. Perhaps this is just a paradigm shift.
 * 4) What questions do I have about providing feedback? **

Apply & Reflect
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In all honesty I like Vocaroo but I don't see it as the best tool for providing feedback. It adds layers of work to both the instructor and the learner. Vocaroo does not like Internet Explorer, users have to use Firefox. Also if we want learners to review feedback and use it to improve their performance, they may have to revisit the feedback again which requires them going back to the site to listen to the message again. I think there are more efficient ways to deliver feedback and more effective ways to use Vocaroo.